Improvement in corset-springs



C.- A. BALDWIN.

CORSET-SPRING.

Patented March 21, 1876.

N. PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPNEH, WASHINGYON. D G.

UNI ED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. BALDWIN, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSET-SPRINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,007, dated March 21, 1876; application filed January 24, 1876.

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BALDWIN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings'and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, front view of the edge of one part; Fig. 2, front view of the edge of the other part; Fig. 3, rear view of the part shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4, transverse section of part, Fig. 2; Fig. 5, transverse section of part, Fig. 3; Fig. 6, transverse section of the two parts together.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of securing the front edges of corsets together, the objeetbeing to make a broad stay, and one which will present a complete closed finished surface without the usual ex: posure of the two edges; and it consists in a clasp arranged in one edge provided with studs, and the other edge provided with a pair of steels in independent pockets, and with a web between, and provided with means for securing this double steel over the other, as more fully hereinafter described. In one edge a broad steel, a, is arranged within a pocket, as indicated in Fig. 4.. On this steel are the usual studs 1), preferably placed in a central position. The other edge-is formed with two pockets, 0 d, with a web or free space, 6, Into the outer pocket 0 a plain between.

steel, f, is inserted, and into the rear pocket 01 a similar steel, h. This inner steel is preferably constructed with eyes 1, as seen in Figs. 3 and 5, corresponding to the studs 11 on the opposite steel, and so that when the part Fig. l is brought over the other the eyes will pass onto the studs, as seen in Fig. 6, and thus secure the two parts together, the other steel in the pocket 0 and the connecting-web 0 overlapping the remainder of the steel, and practically covering the studs and eyes. As the stud will-necessarily project somewhat beyond the face of the eye l, corresponding eyelets 'n are placed in the web 6, so that the head of the stud may pass into the said eyelet.

Instead of the eyes, the eyelets alone may be employed as the means of connecting the one part onto the studs of the other part.,

CHAS. A. BALDWIN. Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, CLARA BROUGHTON. 

